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--:-- Dale Willman: Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman.
--:-- Dale Willman: President Trump says he'll impose a 100% tariff on brand-name pharmaceutical imports next week. That's unless foreign companies are building factories to make the medicines in the U.S.
--:-- Sydney Lupkin: The president has been talking about imposing tariffs on drug companies for months, mentioning different percentages and dates. He took to Truth Social Thursday to post that the tariffs will begin next month.
--:-- Sydney Lupkin: It's unclear how broadly the tariff will affect consumers. They won't apply to generics, about 90% of prescriptions filled in the U.S., only brand-name drugs. And he's making an exception for companies that are expanding manufacturing in the U.S.
--:-- Sydney Lupkin: Many brand-name drug makers have announced new U.S. factories in recent months, which could exempt them from the tariff.
--:-- Dale Willman: Sidney Lupkin, NPR News.
--:-- Dale Willman: The Trump administration is also drastically reshaping the Justice Department.
--:-- Carrie Johnson: Since his election the department has seen mass firings of people who by most accounts were doing their jobs well And Trump continues to urge the department to prosecute his political enemies along with people he doesn't like.
--:-- Carrie Johnson: NPR Kerry Johnson says the entire department remains unsettled
--:-- Carrie Johnson: The DOJ this year, really in just eight months or so, has been shaken to its core. We've seen attacks on career federal prosecutors, mass firings, and also mass resignations of career prosecutors who said they were asked to do things that were unethical, wrong, misrepresenting things to courts.
--:-- Carrie Johnson: We've also seen the administration go after big law firms and very harsh executive orders.
--:-- Carrie Johnson: And this Justice Department has actually sued the entire federal court bench in Maryland over an immigration issue.
--:-- Dale Willman: That's NPR's Carrie Johnson reporting.
--:-- Dale Willman: In New York, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. rejected at the last minute a United Nations declaration for combating chronic diseases.
--:-- Gabriela Emanuel: The declaration lays out a roadmap for preventing and controlling NCDs, or non-communicable diseases like cancer and diabetes.
--:-- Gabriela Emanuel: The document has widespread support from countries around the world.
--:-- Gabriela Emanuel: But when RFK Jr. took the mic, he said the U.S. objected to the declaration.
--:-- Gabriela Emanuel: He says it overlooks pressing health issues but he didn't provide specifics.
--:-- Gabriela Emanuel: It's a massive disappointment Alison Cox is with the NCD Alliance an advocacy group.
--:-- Gabriela Emanuel: But in the end the rest of the governments will move forward and enact The declaration will be considered in the General Assembly next month, where it's expected to win approval.
--:-- Dale Willman: Gabriela Emmanuel, NPR News.
--:-- Dale Willman: The UN Security Council has rejected the last-ditch effort to delay the re-imposition of sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program.
--:-- Dale Willman: That decision comes after Western nations said weeks of meetings failed to result in a concrete agreement.
--:-- Dale Willman: Iran's president calls the decision unfair, unjust, and illegal.
--:-- Dale Willman: If no deal is quickly reached, a series of U.N. sanctions take effect on Saturday.
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--:-- Dale Willman: More and more women are freezing their eggs to preserve fertility.
--:-- Pierce Ping Huang: The practice has increased fourfold over the past 10 years, but a new study finds that most women have not returned to use them,
--:-- Pierce Ping Huang: The paper, published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, finds that more than 16,000 women are cryogenically freezing their eggs each year.
--:-- Pierce Ping Huang: The process helps extend the possibility of having children later on.
--:-- Lindsay Kroener: We found a low percentage of people came back. It was lower than I was expecting.
--:-- Lindsay Kroener: The people that did come back tended to be older at the time they froze their eggs.
--:-- Lindsay Kroener: Just 6% of women came back within five to seven years to thaw the eggs, add sperm, and create embryos.
--:-- Lindsay Kroener: To me, this indicates that many who pursue this option consider it a long-term backup plan.
--:-- Pierce Ping Huang: More healthy young people have been freezing their eggs, and they may try other options for conceiving before using them.
--:-- Dale Willman: Ping Huang, NPR News.
--:-- Dale Willman: A group of 40 former national park superintendents say the nation's parks should be closed if the government shuts down at the end of the month.
--:-- Dale Willman: The group says when parks have been left open, visitors have been endangered, and they say past shutdowns have led to destruction of wildlife habitats and vandalism of iconic symbols.
--:-- Dale Willman: A medical examiner ruled Friday that Shane Tamura was suffering from chronic traumatic encephalopathy when he killed four people in a Manhattan office tower this summer.
--:-- Dale Willman: Tamura shot himself in the chest after the shooting at a building that houses the NFL headquarters.
--:-- Dale Willman: Tamura left a note accusing the NFL of hiding evidence of brain injuries.
--:-- Dale Willman: I'm Dale Willman, NPR News.
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